where can I get in?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everybody, I was just wondering if you could suggest some schools I could get into with these stats. my SAT scores are very poor and I have been doing about 4-5 hours of prep a day with barrons everything to bring them up.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.75 UW, 4.0 W
SAT I: 1830
Chem (680), Math IIC (560), Bio (self-study)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Speech and Debate (9, 10, 11)
-Policy Debate
-participated in numerous final / exhibition rounds
-went to stanford national forensic institute and iowa forensic institute</p>

<p>Associated Student Body (9, 10, 11, 12)
-freshman class senator
-sophmore class senator
-junior class treasurer
-ASB (school) treasurer
-Homecoming floats and coordinated freshmen orientation dance (9)
-Coordinated spring fling (10)
-Coordinated father / daughter dance (11)
-many hours put into other dances and pep rallies.</p>

<p>Track and Field (9)
-frosh / soph longjump</p>

<p>Cross Country (10, 11)
-Varsity distance runner</p>

<p>National Honor Society
-member (11)</p>

<p>California Scholarship Federation
-member (11)
-president (12)</p>

<p>Youth Ministry / Confirmation Group
-teen service projects, passion play participant</p>

<p>Academic Decathlon - (12)
-team is well known for winning CA regionals, i dont know if I will be an A player or a B player</p>

<p>Christian Leadership - (12)
-member (about 20-30 are accepted out of about 150 apps)</p>

<p>Volunteering:
-Church activites (carnival, fish fry, etc)
-Hospital Volunteer in ER (100+ hours)</p>

<p>Employment:
-Countrywide Financial (Intern in IT (Information Technology) Division. CSSD (Countrywide Servicing Systems Development) Department. Rigorous in project participation, analytical, and computer skills.
-Helped manage two family owned internet cafes. computer support and admin.</p>

<p>What good colleges do I have a chance at currently? And what colleges do I have a chance at if I bring all my SAT scores to 700+ (assuming that I will since I am prepping pretty hardcore). Please name anything, I am still in the process if looking into colleges with no set choice yet.</p>

<p>thanks for your time!</p>

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<p>Um.. any college?</p>

<p>Okay well to start with </p>

<p>Penn State, Rutgers, New York University, Northeastern, Tulane, George Washington and some other 30-50 Usnews ranked colleges would round out your reaches/matches/safeties.</p>

<p>If you get a 2100-2200 SAT I would suggest taking top 20-35 of usnews and applyin to all of them. 15 collegs.. maybe take out 5-7 that you don't like.</p>

<p>If you get a 2400 just take top 10-20 of usnews and apply. GL.</p>

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<p>thanks, anyone else?</p>

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<p>bump.........</p>

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<p>how about these schools?</p>

<p>UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, USC, NYU, Tufts, Wake Forest, Emory, Rice, JHU, Northwestern, Yale, and any of the lower ivies. </p>

<p>I live in CA and I think I am getting ELC (top 4% of class). Also minority status.</p>

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<p>Reach:
UCLA
UCB
USC
Rice
Emory
JHU
Northwestern
Yale and Ivies</p>

<p>Match/Reach:
UCSD
Tufts
Wake Forest</p>

<p>I would suggest some more safeties. Most of the schools you listed are very competitive. However, if you do improve your SAT scores, I think many of them will be matches. But you would still need some safeties.</p>

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<p>assuming I can get my scores to the 700 range in everything, which of those would be reaches / matches? </p>

<p>and as of now, worst case scenario, what are the best match / safeties? class size does not matter.</p>

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<p>Jimmy2588:</p>

<p>UCLA: Reach
UCB: Reach
UCSD: Slight Reach
UCSB: Match
USC: Reach</p>

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<p>If you improve your SAT's, you'll have a very competitive application and a reasonable shot to almost anywhere.</p>

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<p>thanks for all the responses, anymore would be excellent.</p>

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<p>Penn, Brown = more reachy than matchy
Duke, Emory = more matchy than reachy
UVa, u of texas, wisconsin, U of chicago = match
U of illinois uc = dunno but i heard it was a good school</p>

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<p>bump......</p>

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<p>could someone post the US news list? I'm too lazy to sign up.</p>

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<p>bump......</p>